Club Spined Sea Urchin

Do you get excited when you find SEA GLASS? Me too! It's another beautiful gem most beachcombers love to collect while looking for shells and other BEACH BLING on any walk on any beach. Oddly enough, lots of our friends don't really get why we travel the world in search of beach treasure... until I tell them we found a honey hole for SEA GLASS. Then their ears perk up! LOL Well, since it's impossible to bring back enough SEAGLASS in our suitcase for everybody who wants some from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... here is a CYBERSHELLING (CYBER-SEAGLASSING) photo from last week's adventure on Glass Beach in Gtmo (CLICK HERE for the history of this SEAGLASS). Just click on the next photo to enlarge it so you can find your own SEA GLASS. Fun! Then I'll show you some of the other cool BLING we found.
In my last post (CLICK HERE), I showed you some of the beautiful shells and areas we combed but couldn't really explain how much fun Clark, me, Lee and Susan had picking through the high tide dry …

A CLUB SPINED SEA URCHIN is an ECHINODERM....and so is the GREEN SEA URCHIN (or also called the VARIEGATED SEA URCHIN)...
This post is a continuation of our snorkeling Road Trip To Seashells In The Florida Keys because I had to do a little more research on these SEA URCHINS I saw this past weekend. We have all kinds of ECHINODERMS (pronounced ek-EYE- no-derms) on Sanibel which include SEA STARS, SAND DOLLARS, SEA CUCUMBERS and SEA URCHINS but these are slightly different AND I wanted to share this word with you.... I love to say it ...."Echinoderm". Ha!
It was fun to see this "hairy" BRITTLE STAR (also an Echinoderm) while so many beautiful tropical fish casually swam by painting the sea with bright blues with stripes of yellows and greens.
So come on in the water with me and enjoy snorkeling the underwater world in only 5 to 12 feet of water around the Florida Keys.The water's fine! …